First day of kindergarten

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Covuschik and Buyer Beware, thank you for the comments.

And *Sigh* I can tell there is a long battle ahead of me. I had to visit the school today because my sweet little boy was throwing pencils and apparently chairs.

(I"m still not sure what happened because I couldn't quite get a straight answer and my son says there was no one in the class or in the way when he was throwing chairs. I'm not sure if he was in meltdown mode and didn't see anyone, or if no one was in the way, or if the teacher had already taken the children out of the class.)

Honestly, I"m not surprised, but I never imagined my little guy doing something bad enough that the class would have to be removed.

So I sat in the class for the rest of the afternoon. I"m not sure how much of it was because of my son's meltdown and how much was the norm for his class, but his teacher had trouble keeping the kids attention and had some organizational issues from what I could see.

Its frustrating because i like her, and personality wise, she'd a good match for him. I just don't think she's meeting his needs. And I know that the classroom setting is over stimulating for him.

I got the whole referral situation started and will be meeting with teh school psychologist and support staff tomorrow. I'm hoping that maybe we can have him pulled out of the classroom for a while every day for some one on one or so he can have some time to detox from the environment.

Time in a quite place for him to stack blocks or dominoes would work wonders and help him recoup before going back to the classroom.

We shall see how it goes. BuyerBeware, I would love to put him in a special school. I know he's brilliant but can be hard to teach.

I have trouble teaching him, but he picks things up with out having to be taught if he is interested. I remember trying to teach him as a baby, things that were age appropriate, and I couldn't force anything. He didn't care and wouldn't try. But once he was interested, he just got it.

He writes and asks how to spell things so he can make signs for his race tracks. Make him write things in a school setting... it doesn't happen with out a fight.

I didn't realize how well he picked up reading until we were doing Hot Wheels work books with him and suddenly, vowels were the most amazing thing in the world.

The problem is, though, I'm pretty darned sure I'm on the spectrum myself and am dealing with a whole host of emotional issues and the thought of home schooling him is just overwhelming.

I'll figure it out if I have to, but I can't teach him social skills, and he needs them. He LOVES other kids.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow. I think the school psychologist will be good. she seems very familiar with autism, and I'm not religious, but I pray she is what we need to get him where he needs to be.

Don't it as going over her head. Look at it as getting her the help she needs to help your son. Believe me, if there are behavioral issues, she will want this. She may just not be allowed to initiate anything that could cost the district money.

Writing in class is not the same as making letters out of stuff. My son is hyperlexic (precocious fluency skills, issues with reading comprehension, obsession with letters, numbers and symbols, social issues etc.) He has motor skill issues like crazy but that never stopped him from making letters out of objects, or drawing(I think the mental process is different from writing) letters at home. With fine motor skills you sometimes have to be careful. Make sure you focus on the handwriting. It may take awhile to get help for this. We did not qualify until first grade due how behind he had to be, to get help. Even if your kids is great with lining up dominoes or blocks this does not mean there are no fine motor issues, Handwriting is different.

For the behavior, you'll have to find out what is bothering him, which is not easy to do, when they are young, AND have communication issues on top of it. You may need to ask for an FBA(Functional Behavioral Analysis) to figure out his triggers and make accommodations.